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If agreements can be reached in areas such as forestry, water quality, maritime employment rights, railways, crime and policing, areas of medicine and much more, they can be reached in the rest of the areas of dispute.
For example, the nurses who can work in a ward environment to support the population in Aboyne or Banchory or in general medicine in ARI are a very finite group.
Although some constituents expressed concerns about the scientific evidence for complementary medicines, there are long traditions of using such medicines in many countries, including here.
Although prescribing costs in secondary care grew, there have been efficiencies and a greater focus on managing those costs. A medicines management group was set up to manage growth in prescribing across acute services.
It is also true—as Iain Gray flagged up in his paperwork—that we have far fewer beds here than there are in other parts of Europe. The Royal College of Emergency Medicine has flagged up that it believes that we need 200 more beds than we have at the moment.
The issue that led to the immediate decision in July 2019 to postpone the move to the new hospital was the identification, not by the independent tester, to which you referred, but by the third-party tester—the Institute of Occupational Medicine—that the air change rates that were being achieved in some parts of the critical care department were not in line...
That is a wider concern across the UK for people who are studying medicine or undertaking postgraduate education in every country of the UK, but in Scotland there is a specific concern because, as we all know, the four-year undergraduate degree is a central pillar—if not the central pillar—of our entire university system.